A Descent into Dullness

Went on the roommate's extra guest membership again this year, the I only managed one of the days.  On Sunday I was just exhausted and fell back asleep in the morning.  A small pity, as I'd signed up for a session of Kobolds Ate My Baby! and to try out the board game Abyss.  But Saturday was good.  Played in the GURPS: Trollhunters ongoing again.  This time I was chipper, fanatical priestess of the God of Resurections.  I kind of picture her in a Mormon suit, biking around from dungeon to dungeon, knocking on doors.  Anyway, our group went to the ruins and encountered a band of orcs, led by a troll.  A sizable portion of the orcs were downed by the groups specialized archer, until she got knocked out by a more heavily armored orc.  In preparing for the approaching troll I attempted to boost the health of the dwarf barbarian only to suffer a critical miscast.  Which turned them into a giant naked dwarf.  They gamely tried to wrestle the troll but ended up at -66 hit points.  Still alive and walking at the end of the battle, but yeesh.  Despite several near deaths (including my priestess) the group was victorious and the characters will advance to whoever runs them next.

Later in the evening I got to play the Red Dragon Inn card game.  In that the players are adventurers relaxing at a tavern, spending their loot on booze.  Each player has an adventurer deck, i was Zot the Wizard.  Another player picked Pooky the Bunny, my familiar.  The goal is to force the other players out, either by making them pass out from a combination of damage and drunkeness or by losing all your money.  I managed to help push out the enchantress, the drunken monk, the time wizard, the fighter AND my familiar.  But the shaman managed to block several turns of my attacks on him while right on the edge and come from behind to win.

Grabbed the Elder Sign game app for my Kindle. Took me like four tries just to beat the 1st easy Elder, Yigg the Snake God. You basically run a 4-person team so I went with the Magician, Nun, PI and Rich Girl...

Went down to Gamer's Inn last night along with the roommate to see about a possible start-up for a Wednesday game. Dan, the potential GM, is someone I've gamed with a few times in the past. Unfortunately the expected third player had miscommunicated when he'd be available so we were short. Luckily, Dan was able to rope a couple of other people in the store to sit in for a session. The game, Trail of Cthulhu, is licensed by Chaosium to noted game designer Robin Laws for his Gumshoe system. Which is a mystery solving centric rpg. Our pre-gen characters were drawn from various parts of 30s England to investigate strange and alien birds spotted in various places. My nurse character and the roommate's closeted Anglican priest were both trying to help an older, mentally ill priest who claimed horrible alien birds were stalking him. The other two players were running a boredom driven female biology student who had found one of the bird corpses and a physics professor who wanted to know why gatherings of the birds interfered with his radiation experiments and his colleagues astronomy work...

The system is interesting and somewhat different. You basically use a point of value from a relevant skill to try and investigate something. For example, if my nurse wanted to check on the symptoms of the old priest and if they matched dementia she's spend a point of her Medicine skill. Or if its a skill test with some random risk, you roll a d6 after declaring how many skill points you'll spend. Like when Brendan had to make a drive roll to avoid some sheep in the road, he spent 2 points and then rolled against an unknown target of 2-8. Not surprisingly, given his lousy dice luck he plowed into that sheep in his car...

I'd be interested in continuing to game with Dan for the system, but really only if he can find at least a 3rd player for the group. Since the game style seems to need a minimum of three. Otherwise I don't really want to make the 30 to 40 minute drive to Gamer's Inn on the hope we can drag in a couple other players from the wandering masses...

Infect the world with zombies and lay waste to the works of man...

Got all shopping done in about 15 minutes. Probably because I bought everything off Amazon and went more for gifts for family groups, rather than individuals. So games mostly, including two sets of Apples to Apples...

Thanks to indigoskynet and morchades for pointing this out. Now I can reward myself for dealing with idiots and drunks at work...

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